Chapter Three – Meeting our goals A New Mobility Culture for Merseyside The third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside A city region, committed to a low carbon future which has a transport network and mobility culture that positively contributes to a thriving economy and the health and wellbeing of its citizens and where sustainable travel is the option of choice. A New Mobility Culture for Merseyside The third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside Part One The Strategy - Overview A city region, committed to a low carbon future which has a transport network and mobility culture that positively contributes to a thriving economy and the health and wellbeing of its citizens and where sustainable travel is the option of choice. Foreword Our third Local Transport Plan (LTP) marks the end of a long and inclusive process designed to set out the best possible strategy for enhancing and improving transport for Merseyside. We continue to plan in uncertain and volatile times. The effects of the recent recession and its possible longer term financial impacts locally mean that forecasting remains more fraught with difficulty than normal. This third Plan makes our best estimates for the future, based on all the available evidence we have gathered. It is however, only a reflection of where we currently find ourselves. It will need constant review and updating to reflect changing circumstances. We were gratified by the level of interest shown during our two periods of consultation in 2010. Working in partnership, not only with the local authorities and major stakeholders such as the transport operators and business interests, but also the community sector and local interest groups has always marked the way we have achieved success. That platform will stand us in good stead over the next few years. This is more important than ever, given the much reduced levels of funding we now have at our disposal. We will be starting to implement LTP3 with only one third of the funding with which we started the final year of LTP2. The scale of the challenge we all face to ensure Merseyside has the transport network that will support its future growth, reduce its carbon output and help improve the health and wellbeing of its residents is therefore great. We recognise the need to change the way we work. That is why we set out in this LTP the need for a new mobility culture. By this we mean, the need to find better ways of matching our transport network with new developments, new and smarter ways of travelling around and delivering transport services that ensure the efficient movement of people and goods. This cannot be achieved by the Merseyside Transport Partnership (MTP) working in isolation, but must embrace all our stakeholders. That is why a constant theme in this LTP is the need to work with partners and stakeholders to address common objectives In the short term at least, it will be difficult to deliver some of our ambitions. But the Government has recognised the importance of continuing transport investment through recent decisions to electrify the rail lines to Manchester and Wigan and to support the Thornton/Switch Island link in Sefton and Mersey Gateway in Halton. We will continue to work with Government for more investment and with partners and stakeholders to examine ways and means of securing the right level of investment for Merseyside. Our LTP sets out a Vision and Strategy that will guide us for the future. Mark Dowd OBE Neil Scales OBE Chair of Merseyside Integrated Chief Executive & Director General, Merseytravel Transport Authority Chair of Merseyside Transport Partnership Third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside 001 Our Partners 002 Third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside Contents Summary 7 Chapter One Introduction 33 Chapter Two Our vision and goals 37 Chapter Three The national and local framework 51 Chapter Four Meeting the needs of Merseyside 59 Chapter Five The Strategy 91 Chapter Six Managing our performance 149 Chapter Seven The Local Sustainable Transport Fund 157 Further information 161 Figure 1 The development tree 39 Figure 2 The twin peaks 49 Figure 3 Support of economic growth – multiple objectives 50 Figure 4 Modal choice by time of day 68 Figure 5 Purpose of travel by time of day 68 Figure 6 Proportions of trips by distance band and mode 69 Figure 7 Disadvantaged areas – Access to car 71 Figure 8 Forecast employment growth 81 Figure 9 TEMPRO forecasts in growth in car ownership 82 Figure 10 TEMPRO – Traffic forecasts 82 Figure 11 Traffic volume in Merseyside (vehicle kms) 96 Figure 12 Local and Alternative Do Minimum and Final Strategy Forecasts 98 (Highway Trips, AM peak) Figure 13 Merseyside roads 2014: changes in CO2 emissions between do 100 minimum and final strategy Figure 14 Merseyside roads 2024: changes in CO2 emissions between do 101 minimum and final strategy Figure 15 Delivery of LTP 103 Third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside 003 Contents Map 1 Major employment locations – Trips to work 66 Map 2 Distribution of all trip destinations in Merseyside in the AM peak 67 Map 3 Distribution of air pollution on the major road network 70 Map 4 St Helens core strategy 75 Map 5 Wirral core strategy 76 Map 6 Halton core strategy 78 Map 7 West Lancashire core strategy 79 Map 8 Transport impacts of development strategy in West Lancashire 80 Table 1 The Merseyside four year maintenance block allocations 57 Table 2 The Merseyside four year Integrated Transport Block allocations 58 Table 3 Main themes from consultation 63 Table 4 Updated challenges and opportunities 86 Table 5 Do minimum forecasts of Merseyside transport demand 94 (by time period and mode) for 2014 and 2024 Table 6 Final Strategy forecasts of Merseyside transport demand 95 (by time period and mode) for 2014 and 2024 Table 7 LTP3 final strategy forecasts – impact of strategy upon do minimum 95 (Liverpool City Centre) Table 8 Alternative do minimum forecasts of Merseyside transport demand 97 (by time period and mode) for 2014 and 2024 Table 9 Alternative Final Strategy forecasts of Merseyside transport demand 97 (by time period and mode) for 2014 and 2024 Table 10 LTP3 final strategy forecasts – impact of strategy upon do minimum 98 (local and alternative forecasts) Table 11 Changes in annual air pollution for 2014 and 2024 99 Table 12 The sustainable and equitable transport network 104 Table 13 Current city region and Local Authority priorities and potential transport 105 implications Table 14 Major schemes 109 Table 15 Summary of actions to support goals 111 Table 16 Summary of actions to support transport activities 121 004 Third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside Contents Table 17 Summary of actions to support disadvantaged communities 145 Table 18 Performance Indicators 152 Table 19 Integrated Assessment monitoring measures 156 Annexes Annexe One Supporting Local Strategic Partnerships Annexe Two Possible funding sources Annexe Three Forecasting and modelling Annexe Four Freight Strategy Annexe Five Intelligent Transport Systems Strategy Annexe Six Active Travel Strategy Annexe Seven Disadvantaged Communities Research Annexe Eight Merseyside Cycle and Short Trip Evidence Study Annexe Nine LTP3 Consultation Report Annexe Ten Merseyside Authorities Air Quality Action Plans Annexe Eleven Research overview Annexe Twelve Evaluation of the TravelWise Merseyside programme Annexe Thirteen Low Emissions Strategy Annexe Integrated Assessment Fourteen Annexe Fifteen Developing the performance indicators Other supporting reports/documents such as Challenges & Opportunities, the draft Preferred Strategy for LTP3, LTP3 Evidence Base, MAA and surveys such as the Countywide Survey are available to download from www.TransportMerseyside.org The annexes listed above are available to download alongside an electronic copy of this document from www.TransportMerseyside.org Third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside 005 Contents 006 Third Local Transport Plan for Merseyside Summary Summary Introduction 1. Responsibility for the LTP rests with the Integrated Transport Authority (ITA), but is developed and delivered in close collaboration with the five Merseyside local authorities, who together with Merseytravel form the Merseyside Transport Partnership. The LTP provides the transport strategy and plans for the county of Merseyside. 2. The Liverpool City Region (LCR) is made up of the five Merseyside local authorities and Halton Council. Halton have their own LTP (Ref 1), but there has been close collaboration across the city region so that the two LTPs provide a united approach for the future development of the city region‟s transport needs. 3. The introduction of the third LTP marks the end of a sustained period of evidence gathering and consultation to help us find the best strategy for the future. We issued Challenges and Opportunities, (Ref 2) for initial consultation in March 2010 and this was followed in September with the draft Preferred Strategy (Ref 3). We had high levels of interest throughout this period and published our Options Review (Ref 4) in January 2011, setting out the final issues that needed to be considered for the LTP. The LTP is in three parts:- Part One sets out our Strategy and summarises our overall approach and technical appraisal. Part Two provides a more detailed explanation as to how we aim to deliver against the Goals we have set to support the Strategy. Part Three is the Implementation Plan setting out the programmes that the Merseyside Transport Partnership, made up of the five local authorities and Merseytravel, plan to deliver over the next